186 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Larva shaped like wood-lice, extremely sluggish for the most part, and look in 

 many cases more like a Coccus or some other vegetable excrescence than caterpillars, 

 some are smooth, many clothed with a soft down, some with fascicles of short bristles, 

 or regularly disposed tubercles, and a few, hairy generally ; several are regularly 

 corrugated dorsally, and others prominently humped in one or two places ; some 

 larvae of Lycsenidse are scutate, being furnished with a hard flattened shield on the 

 dorsal region of the three last segments, which is used by the larvae to plug up the 

 holes in the fruits in the interior of which they live. The majority of the larvae feed 

 on the young leaves, buds, and flowers of trees, bushes and low-growing plants. 

 Lampides, Virachola and Deudorix, however, feed on the interior of fruits of several 

 kinds, some feed upon the seed pods of leguminous plants ; these latter have very 

 long necks, so that they can reach far into the interior of the pods (de Niceville). 



Pupa. — Usually very blunt, never furnished with spines or processes, though 

 they are often densely covered with short hairs or bristles ; much rounded 

 anteriorly, the thorax rounded and often humped, generally dull coloured, of various 

 shades of red or brown or green. 



Sub-Family GERYDIN^. 



Imago. — Coloration dull, brown or blackish-brown, white or marked with white 

 in most females ; wings mostly elongate and delicate. Forewing with vein 8 absent. 

 Hindiv'mg with all the veins present ; outer margin of both wings sometimes uneven, 

 sometimes dentate ; abdomen slender, usually extending beyond the wings ; antennae 

 half the length of the costa of forewings ; club gradual ; palpi with the third joint 

 long and slender ; legs long, abnormal, the first joint of the tarsi elongate. The 

 genitalia of the male, Doherty says, are peculiar, the prehensores long, thin and plate- 

 like, resembling the valves of the Pajnlionidas. 



Egg. — Less than one-third as high as wide, delicately and somewhat obsolescently 

 reticulate, sometimes carinate, flat above and below (Doherty). 



Larvji; and Pup^ unknown. 



Genus GERYDUS. 

 Gcryclus, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 23, fig. 2 (1836). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 205 (1884;. 



de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 21 (1890). Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 288 



(1907). 

 Symetha, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 59, pi. 2, fig. 2 (1828). 

 Miletus, Westwood (part, nee Hiibner), Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 502 (1852). 



Lmago. — Eyes naked, palpi slender, scaled, not fringed in front, third joint long, 

 antennae less than half the length of the costa of forewings, club long and slender, abdomen 

 of the male with a sub-anal tuft of stiff" hairs ; legs abnormal, first joint of tarsi 



